Apart from some very common surnames like Tripathi, Dwivedi, Gowda, Reddy, etc. it's going to be very hard to learn to associate names with castes. Each state a

Apart from some very common surnames like Tripathi, Dwivedi, Gowda, Reddy, etc. it's going to be very hard to learn to associate names with castes. Each state and each region has its own traits, which don't translate across that region. For example, my state, Karnataka, has a handful of regions of its own. I can sometimes tell that a person is from south coastal KA or north KA, but as for caste, I'd have no clue. Here's a list of Members of Parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_17th_Lok_Sabha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_17th_Lo... The ones with names like Yadav and Singh are pretty obvious. But scroll to southern states, and the exercise gets practically impossible.